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Berger attended only one of the briefings--the session that dealt with the threat posed to the U.S. by international terrorism, and especially by al-Qaeda. "I'm coming to this briefing," he says he told Rice, "to underscore how important I think this subject is." Later, alone in his office with Rice, Berger says he told her, "I believe that the Bush Administration will spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al-Qaeda specifically, than any other subject...
Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. A senior Bush Administration official denies being handed a formal plan to take the offensive against al-Qaeda, and says Clarke's materials merely dealt with whether the new Administration should take "a more active approach" to the terrorist group. (Rice declined to comment, but through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was present.) Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda...
...attack on Iraq was an attack on Arabs and Muslims. Saddam called on the U.N. to pursue a dialogue with Iraq on the question of weapons inspections. The speech came a day after U.S. President George W. Bush insisted that Iraq was a "real" threat that must be dealt with...
...they ducked corporate governance in any fundamental way. The election of corporate board members is a Kremlin type of election. It's a self-perpetuating system, with the shareholders having no real power. That has not been touched. And basic problems of conflict of interest have not been dealt with. You have all the watchdogs in the private sector getting commissions from all the people they are supposed to be watching. The companies pay the auditors who are supposed to be auditing...
Clearly, single-sex education is not the easy solution to rescue gender-tortured middle-schoolers. In my all-girls enclave, middle school was far from a breeze. My class dealt with eating disorders, exclusive discussions of dating and the cool jeans to wear. Although I avoided the sexual tension during classes and the need to impress my crushes during recess, identity angst will never be far from middle-schoolers...